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A Guide to CMR/PMR and SMR drives in 2021 – Should You Buy Them? Remember when buying a hard drive was simple? The technology behind hard drives has existed for decades and it is only really in the last 10 or so years that the formula for how hard drives store data has changed substantially...

Usage type: enthusiast Preferred form factor DS (DiskStation) Number of bays: 2-bays Do you have any existing drives that you plan on using? Yes Prefered RAID array setup for this NAS: SHR This NAS will be used for: backup, multimedia, business (virtual machines, mail, office...

I have a Synology NAS 218+ on our premises . I have just installed the latest of the DSM 6.2.4 25556 and the VPN application and configured the Openvpn application. The systems is working fine but i would like to know whether that Openvpn application from Synology is as safe and secured...

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About 6 months ago I bought my first NAS for my home/office setup, a DS220J with 2 x 2TB Seagate Iron Wolf drives. I’ve now bought a DS220+ with 2 x 8TB Seagate Iron Wolf drives - a vast improvement! My question is: what should I do with the DS220J? Sell it or put it to some other use?

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Want to prepare a new NAS at home which will actually be installed in another site (another city). Are there any issues that may arise so that an build like this would not be recommended? What are the points I must take into account in order not to run into problems? Thanks

I inherited a NAS from my sister-in-law which we discovered in the attic of her house covered in dust. It had been running quietly in the background for 5 years after the death of her husband never being accessed. Having cleaned it up, reformatted it etc (as a complete beginner never having had...

Hello All, I am glad to be here. Looking through the forum, I see helpful posts and knowledge share and experiences. So, I stepped into the world of NAS for the first-time last month. Got myself a DS920+ and the sole intention was Plex. Although I am discovering the world of possibilities. I...

Usage type: enterprise Preferred form factor DS (DiskStation) Number of bays: 2-bays Do you have any existing drives that you plan on using? Yes Prefered RAID array setup for this NAS: RAID 10 This NAS will be used for: backup, multimedia, business (virtual machines, mail, office...

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How to Upgrade the RAM in your Synology RS1221+ to 32GB and 64GB RAM Unofficially Back in Autumn 2020, when the Synology RS1221+ was first released, many users were surprised at the maximum memory an type of locked limit that the manufacturers stated on the specifications – 32GB of ECC DDR4 to...

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i have about 5,000,000 small files (<100 k) and 100,000 large files (>100 megs) and I cant decide if i should choose btrfs or ext4 on my new ds418. I plan on using RAID1 for now (2 drives). im afraid of how long its going to take to copy the files over smb with robocopy from a windows pc...

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Quitting the Cloud – Are You Ready for NAS? Let’s all be honest for a second – google services are actually pretty bloody good! From the ease and carefree use of GMAIL and Google Docs to exchange messages and documents, to the sharing of videos on YouTube and relative ease of Google Drive – it...

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Hi, newbie here, first post. I have a DS218+ and have been digitizing thousands of photos over the past year. I have DSFile on my iPhone and can access my images anywhere I have a signal. What I need now are some recommendations on ways I can get those images to appear on a TV screen so I...

The Synology DS1621+ vs QNAP TS-673A NAS Compared The choice for businesses that are making the move away from third-party cloud services, or those looking to add a NAS to the existing multi-tier data strategy, has never been larger than in 2021. Right now, for businesses looking at a reliable...

How to Upgrade the RAM in your Synology DS1621xs+ to 32GB and 64GB RAM Unofficially Back in Autumn 2020, when the Synology DS1621xs+ was first released, many users were surprised at the maximum memory an type of locked limit that the manufacturers stated on the specifications – 32GB of ECC DDR4...